{"id":1671,"date":"2003-08-28T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T08:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/29\/korea-ready-to-go-nuclear\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:27:54","slug":"korea-ready-to-go-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/korea-ready-to-go-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea ready to go nuclear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13602,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/asiapcf\\\/east\\\/08\\\/28\\\/nkorea.talks&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/asiapcf\\\/east\\\/08\\\/28\\\/nkorea.talks&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13603,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003972.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003972.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How long until Bush&#8217;s utterly ludicrous &#8220;cowboy diplomacy&#8221; results in some <em>real<\/em> casualties? Bad enough that we&#8217;re still averaging one or two soldiers a day being killed in Iraq, but now it looks like North Korea is about ready to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/east\/08\/28\/nkorea.talks\/\" title=\"No agreement at N Korea nuke talks\">start testing nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;officials in Washington told CNN that North Korea was preparing to publicly declare itself a nuclear power and had threatened to prove its capabilities by conducting a nuclear test.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What would it take to stop this? According to North Korea, not much at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The package of solutions includes the U.S. signing of a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK (North Korea), the establishment of diplomatic relations with the DPRK, the guarantee of DPRK-Japan and inter-Korean economic cooperation, the completion of light-water reactors,\\&#8221; Xinhua said in a dispatch from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;In return, the DPRK will not manufacture nuclear weapons and allow in inspection, realise the ultimate dismantlement of nuclear facilities and stop the export and experiment of missiles,&#8221; it said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US, however, continues to treat North Korea as if it were a snotty nosed kid on the playground making empty threats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;the White House tried to play down the North&#8217;s warnings saying it was getting &#8220;excellent&#8221; cooperation from its partners in the talks and that North Korea has a &#8220;history of making inflammatory comments that serve to isolate it from the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The question from the U.S. administration standpoint, the official said, is &#8220;whether this is a serious and irreversible statement or part of their past pattern of starting every conversation by being threatening to see if it wins them something.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this rate, we&#8217;ll be seeing mushroom clouds again before we know it. If we&#8217;re lucky, they&#8217;ll be confined to test sites &#8212; if we&#8217;re unlucky Bush&#8217;s steadfast and stubborn intransigence just may score a body count the US hasn&#8217;t been party to in decades.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003972.html\" title=\"we're a nuclear power\">Daily Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this rate, we&#8217;ll be seeing mushroom clouds again before we know it. If we&#8217;re lucky, they&#8217;ll be confined to test sites &mdash; if we&#8217;re unlucky Bush&#8217;s steadfast and stubborn intransigence just may score a body count the US hasn&#8217;t been party to in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}